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Genesis 15:17-18 Cutting covenant - Day 14

Good afternoon my fellow workers,

After a successful Dough Day, we take another step toward the routine of TCCS.  The Apple E-Festival last year just wasn't the same.  As you can tell, this was written on 9/11/20 and when we were doing a study in Matthew for men's group.  So much has changed since then. But I think these thoughts our still applicable.

Blessings,

Jeff

God validates the covenant by passing through the divided animals by Himself.  Abram is soundly asleep (dead in a sense).  19th anniversary of 9/11 attacks, a day that from human perspective "changed history".  But the day of this covenant is remembered now while other "change history" events have been forgotten by all but a few historians.  This is kingdom of God coming to earth.  God's reign over God's people in God's place.  Insignificant in the minds of human historians who value the great empires of the ancient world.  Yet this event is more significant than the building of the pyramids, any of the other 7 wonders of the ancient world which have disappeared.

Your kingdom come - this is the inauguration.  While the promised people and the promised land are still in the future, the promise has been made.  Your Kingdom was spoken into existence.  The relationship between You and Your creation advanced on this day.  You did not change and the Genesis 3:15 promise did not change, but the path to the fulfillment became clearer.  As I live looking back, what should I learn about looking forward.  The thought from yesterday about why Jesus spoke so much about the kingdom of heaven to the Jewish audience in Matthew.  So many misconceptions of what it looked like.  Don't I suffer from the same problem.  I and the Church view the kingdom through lens that distorts instead of clarifies.  Glasses with the wrong prescription are not neutral.  They would do harm.  We don't know what to pray for as we ought because we have misconception about Your kingdom.  We don't use scriptural lens.  Just like Abram did.

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